DRUGS FROM HOLLAND
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) GENEVA, Saturday. Sir Malcolm Delevingne, British member of the Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium, at a meeting of that body to-day, called attention to the fact that the owners of a Dutch factory in 1927 imported illicitly nearly two tons of heroin. 15cwt of morphine and other drugs and sent them to all parts of the w orld. The heroin would have been sufficient to satisfy Britain’s needs for 12 years. The committee came to the conclusion that the only way to control the traffic in harmful drugs is to find a means of limiting the production. It decided to ask the Council of the League of Nations to devise a plan.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 573, 28 January 1929, Page 9
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122DRUGS FROM HOLLAND Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 573, 28 January 1929, Page 9
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